A thumb in the background of the photo clearly showed fingerprint details The user had avoided overtly disclosing his identity, but shared one close-up photo of an index-finger covered in a pink ...

Still, fingerprint scanning technology has plenty of life left — and Apple itself is likely to offer the option in future devices — based on patents for under-the-screen versions of the same ...

The limitation means you must wake up your Pixel's display or have Always-on Display enabled to unlock the phone by just placing your thumb over the fingerprint scanner. Thankfully, Android 16 ...

The latest beta build of Android 16 brings a new feature to Pixel phones that lets users biometrically unlock the device without ever waking up the screen.